Affiliated Faculty

Michael Benoit, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Milad Kamkar, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Valerie Ward, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Jeff Gostick, Ph.D.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

David Correa, M.Arch., B.Arch.Sci

School of Architecture

University of Waterloo

Thomas Willett, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Systems Design Engineering

University of Waterloo

Paul Fieguth, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Systems Design Engineering

University of Waterloo

Mary Wells, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Dean of Engineering

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Kaan Erkorkmaz, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Amir Khajepour, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Adrian Gerlich, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Kaan Inal, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Hamid Jahedmotlagh, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Norman Zhou, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Armaghan Salehian, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Behrad Khamesee, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Boxin Zhao, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Michael Pope, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Chemical Engineering

University of Waterloo

Ali Ghodsi, Ph.D.

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

University of Waterloo

Shoja’eddin Chenouri, Ph.D.

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science

University of Waterloo

Hani Naguib, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

University of Toronto

Jean-Pierre Hickey, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Adjunct Professors

Milan Brandt, Ph.D.

Professor of Manufacturing, Materials and Mechatronics

RMIT, Australia

Christopher Leyens, Ph.D.

Managing Director

Fraunhofer Institute of Materials and Beam Technology, Germany

Ali Bonakdar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

University of North Carolina Charlotte

Mahdi Habibnejad, Ph.D.

Senior External R&D Manager

GE Additive - AP&C, Canada

Research Assistant Professors

Ehsan Marzbanrad, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Saeed Maleksaeedi, Ph.D.

Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

University of Waterloo

Staff

Allan Rogalsky, Ph.D.

Operations and Safety Manager

adrogals@uwaterloo.ca

519-888-4567 x35213

Catalyst137

Denise Porter

Financial Manager

denise.porter@uwaterloo.ca

519-888-4567 x37680

EC4

Mohsen K. Keshavarz, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Industry Liaison
Senior Scientist

Francis Dibia

Research Project Manager

cfdibia@uwaterloo.ca

519-888-4567 x38409

Catalyst137

Farzad Liravi, Ph.D.

Manager, NSERC HI-AM Project
Manager, CFI Can-AMN

fliravi@uwaterloo.ca

Catalyst137

Edward Yang

Characterization and Maintenance Coordinator

Catalyst137

Postdoctoral Fellows

Atefeh Tafti Merry, Ph.D.

Mahyar Hasanabadi, Ph.D.

Tatevik Minasyan, Ph.D.

Research Associates

Charu Sachdeva

Pablo Enrique, Ph.D.

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Masoud Alimardani (2005-2009)

Hamidreza Alemohammad (2006-2010)

Yaser Shanjani (2006-2011)

Negar Rasti (2008-2014)

Mihaela Vlasea (2008-2014)

Ahmad Basalah (2009-2015)

Olivier Jay (2012-2015)

Elahe Jabari (2011-2016)

Esmat Sheydaeian (2013-2017)

Amir Azhari (2013-2017)

Farzad Liravi (2014-2018)

Yuze Huang (2014-2019)

Zhidong (Brian) Zhang (2015-2019)

Bahareh Marzbanrad (2015-2020)

Mazyar Ansari (2017-2021)

Osezua Ibhadode (2017-2021)

Ali Keshavarzkermani (2017-2021)

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Reza Esmaeilizadeh (2017-2021)

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Nivas Ramachandiran (2018-2023)

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Farid Behzadian (2013-2015)

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Jeremy Vandenberg (2016-2018)

Henry Ma (2016-2018)

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Manyou Sun (2019-2021)

Jeffrey Andrew Sixt (2019-2021)

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Osezua Ibhadode (2021-2022)

Ali Keshavarzkermani (2021-2022)

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Reza Esmaeilizadeh (2021-2022)

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Bahareh Marzbanrad (2020-2023)

Jinoop Arackal Narayanan (2021-2023)

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Sagar Patel (2021-2023)

Katayoon Taherkhani (2022-2023)

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Mohsen K. Keshavarz

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Richard Liang (2015-2016)

Xixi Zhang (2015-2016)

Geoffrey Fowler (2017-2017)

Ryan Schmidt (2017-2017)

Philippe Meszaros (2017-2018)

Evan Wheat (2017-2018)

Akash Pillai Kala (2018)

Kannan Mahadevan (2018)

Joe Canhoto (2018-2018)

Lisa Brock (2019-2020)

Ali Zardoshtian (2020-2020)

Haniyeh Fayazfar (2020-2020)

Ehsan Marzbanrad (2020-2020)

Eric Tenuta (2020-2021)

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Mehran Rafieazad (2021-2021)

Marc Wang (2018-2018, 2020-2022)

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Ken Nsiempba (2020-2022)

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Mohamed Goha (Winter 2022)

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